Quotes About Responsibility

In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?

The first duty of every soul is to find not its freedom but its Master.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Freedom is never more in peril than when politicians feel the pressure to 'do something.'

People are dying in vain because America isn't holding their end of the bargain up, as far as giving freedom and justice, liberty to everybody. That's something that's not happening.

True freedom is not the liberty to do anything we please, but the liberty to do what we ought; and it is genuine liberty because doing what we ought now pleases us

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

We enjoy freedom and the rule of law on which it depends, not because we deserve it, but because others before us put their lives on the line to defend it.

Freedom is not possible without authority - otherwise it would turn into chaos and authority is not possible without freedom - otherwise it would turn into tyranny.

We are personally responsible for our own state of consciousness. As Soul unfolds toward total freedom, It understands total responsibility must be accepted for every thought and action.

He who allows oppression shares the crime.

Without discipline, there can be no freedom.

The right of personal freedom recedes before the duty to preserve the race.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.

I need not add that freedom is a dangerous thing. But it is hardly possible that we are all cowards.

If there was absolute freedom, people would run over babies and charge admission.

We must understand that the highest form of freedom carries with it the greatest measure of discipline.

Freedom to do what one likes is really bondage, while being free to do what one must, what is right, is real freedom.

Every right is married to a duty, every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility.

When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company to mount an aggressive anti-smoking campaign.